How to change the background color of a JFrame dynamically?

Question

Hello i was wondering of how to change the background color of a JFrame dynamically as in this Website when you click on the button Ok, Let's Go and then select any option, the background change dynamically, i would like to do it, but using a JFrame. I was thinking on create a cicle to do it. If someone do knows how to do it, i'll be thankful

This is what i want:

Answer 1

Add this to the actionListeners of your buttons JFrame.getContentPane().setBackground(Color.colorName);

And change the colours at will.

Answer 2

Could you please make an example?

Below is an example switching from blue to green and green to blue. There's bug with the first click to green. And it's probably not the most robust code, but It's just an example that I'm too lazy to improve on right now. You can play with it

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.Timer;

public class ChangeColor {

    public ChangeColor() {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        frame.add(new ColorPanel());
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }

    public class ColorPanel extends JPanel {

        private static final int DELAY = 30;
        private static final int INCREMENT = 5;
        private Color currentColor = Color.BLUE;
        boolean isBlue = true;
        boolean isGreen = false;
        private int r,g,b;

        private Timer timer = null;
        private JButton greenButton = null;
        private JButton blueButton = null;

        public ColorPanel() {
            r = 0; g = 0; b = 255;

            greenButton = createGreenButton();
            blueButton = createBlueButton();

            timer = new Timer(DELAY, new ActionListener() {
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {

                    if (isBlue) {
                        if (b == 0) {
                            stopTimer();
                            enableButtons();
                        } else {
                            blueToGreen();
                            setColor(new Color(r, b, g));
                        }
                    } 

                    if (isGreen) {
                        if (g == 0) {
                            stopTimer();
                            enableButtons();
                        } else {
                            greenToBlue();
                            setColor(new Color(r, b, g));
                        }
                    }

                    repaint();
                }
            });

            add(blueButton);
            add(greenButton);
        }

        public JButton createBlueButton() {
            JButton button = new JButton("BLUE");
            button.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    if (currentColor != new Color(0, 255, 0)) {
                        System.out.println("turn blue");
                        isBlue = true;
                        isGreen = false;
                        diableButtons();
                        startTimer();   
                    }
                }
            });
            return button;
        }

        public void diableButtons() {
            blueButton.setEnabled(false);
            greenButton.setEnabled(false);
        }

        public void enableButtons() {
            blueButton.setEnabled(true);
            greenButton.setEnabled(true);
        }

        public JButton createGreenButton() {
            JButton button = new JButton("GREEN");
            button.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    if (currentColor != new Color(0, 0, 255)) {
                        System.out.println("turn green");
                        isGreen = true;
                        isBlue = false;
                        diableButtons();
                        startTimer();

                    }
                }
            });
            return button;
        }

        private void blueToGreen() {
            b -= INCREMENT;
            g += INCREMENT;
        }

        private void greenToBlue() {
            g -= INCREMENT;
            b += INCREMENT;
        }



        public void setColor(Color color) {
            this.currentColor = color;
        }

        public void startTimer() {
            timer.start();
        }

        public void stopTimer() {
            timer.stop();
        }

        @Override
        protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
            super.paintComponent(g);
            g.setColor(currentColor);
            g.fillRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
        }

        @Override
        public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
            return new Dimension(300, 300);
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
            public void run() {
                new ChangeColor();
            }
        });

    }
}

Answer 3

YourJFrame.getContentPane().setBackground(Color.colorName);

Where "YourJFrame" is the name of your component and "colorName" is the name of one of the colors available in the Color class.